Opening PDFs as "Pictures"

[Matthias Schulz]

Hi, 

so I'm trying to open PDFs just as pictures because I don't have all the fonts that were used.

Everytime I open a PDF I get this message with checkboxes if I want to edit the text and use alternative fonts for the ones i don't have but it doesn't matter which one i check, the result is the same everytime. The Text is always editable and the fonts i don't have are always replaced.

Did I miss something like an option? Because I thought it would be possible to edit a PDF like a picture

Thank you for your help.

 

Kind regards, 

Matthias Schulz

[MEB]

Hi Matthias Schulz,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Affinity apps still don't support embedded fonts in PDF's so we have to rely on the fonts installed on the system to display them. Because of this same reason we can't also import a PDF as an image - it requires embedded font support to render them.

[Matthias Schulz]

Hi MEB, 

Thank you so much for your fast answer, at least I'm certain know, that I don't overlook an Option

[PaulEC]

Is there any chance that embedded fonts will be supported in the not too distant future?

As the only way to open old PagePlus etc  documents in Affinity is via PDFs, it would be really helpful if it could open them with the correct fonts.

[Rubyjim]

Can you not save the document as a picture .jpg ?

[walt.farrell]

51 minutes ago, PaulEC said:

As the only way to open old PagePlus etc  documents in Affinity is via PDFs, it would be really helpful if it could open them with the correct fonts

But if you have PagePlus, and created the documents, doesn't that indicate that you have the fonts installed? 

[PaulEC]

1 hour ago, Rubyjim said:

Can you not save the document as a picture .jpg ?

Not if you want to edit it!

[PaulEC]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

But if you have PagePlus, and created the documents, doesn't that indicate that you have the fonts installed? 

Not necessarily, if the PagePlus file was created on a different PC!

Also, it's not just PagePlus files, I have had several PDFs with embedded fonts that I haven't been able to open and edit satisfactorily.

[Pšenda]

2 hours ago, PaulEC said:

in the not too distant future?

What does that mean for you? One day, month, year?

This feature has been required long:

 

Edited March 6, 2019 by Pšenda

[PaulEC]

1 hour ago, Pšenda said:

What does that mean for you? One day, month, year? 

This feature has been required long:

So does that mean we should just forget about it and assume it's never going to happen!

Serif say that the way to open files from their legacy products (and various other file types they don't support in Affinity) is via PDF. However, if their PDF import does not support embedded fonts, this can cause a lot of problems and extra work!

[MEB]

Hi PaulEC,
As far as I know we do intend to support embedded fonts but it's a complex/laborious task and it will take some time until the dev team has the time/resources to pick this up. There's currently a lot of other things/work to do...

[Dazzler]

Good to hear embedded font support is something that might appear in the future. It's one thing that is keeping me glued to my adobe subscription (luckily my company pays for that - whereas my affinity products I bought personally because they are affordable!)
I have a workflow for a particular job, where I need to make a set of thumbnail images from a batch of pdf files (40+), showing just the opening cover (page 1) of each. So the other thing that would be useful is to be able to somehow select a single page on the batch job input dialogue rather than it automatically open them all up and output it as a contact sheet of pages.
Apart from that, I'm really very impressed with Affinity Photo and what it has to offer. Haven't found much else that it can't cope with so far.